Breathe so softly, ye breezes (Henry Alexander Donald)

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• (Posted 2023-10-10)  CPDL #76206:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-10).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 573 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Breathe so softly, ye breezes
Composer: Henry Alexander Donald
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1899 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

Breathe so softly, ye breezes,
Night winds, cease your sighing,
That no sound molest her,
While in slumber lying.
O moonbeams veil your brightness,
O stars bring stillness around her,
In visions bright,
Through the night,
While my lady sleeps.
Fill all her dreaming, with visions bright.

Gaze so gently upon her,
Rays of rosy morning,
Flowers breathe perfume round her,
While the day is dawning,
O tell her, through the watches
My lonely guard I am keeping,
Till night is past,
Morn at last,
Wake her to love and me.
Fill all her waking, with thoughts of me.